• vacuumflower
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    4 months ago

    In the Middle Ages people believed in creatures nobody had ever seen. And the legal systems and the concepts of knowledge were not very good.

    And still the latter evolved to become better long before people started recording sounds to wax cylinders and shooting photos.

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      4 months ago

      In the Middle Ages people believed in creatures nobody had ever seen

      FWIW even centuries later, during Linneaus time, people were actually looking for unicorns.

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        4 months ago

        Some people are still looking for yetis and aliens and mountain lake dragons.